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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.57
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Terminal Statue, Rome
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Rome: A terminal statue
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1906-1907
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307892

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
52.2 x 38.3 cm (20 9/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: center of verso, red crayon: 4/19
  • inscription: right edge, graphite: 4075
  • inscription: l.l., graphite: 2200oo
  • inscription: l.l., blue crayon: 5753
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: A Terminal Statue; Rome
  • inscription: back of old frame, graphite: 5753.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist's estate sale, Christie's, London, July 24, 1925, lot. 9; purchased by Scott and Fowles, New York; purchased from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, January 1926; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1942.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.57
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J. S. Sargent. R. A., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, England, 1925), no. 9
  • John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 325, cat. no. 343, reproduced in b&w
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), no. 1362, repr. p. 233, p. 358

Verification Level

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